Satyar Shah

And I know that it's hard for us on the outside sometimes to get a great sense of the player's makeup, but that's one thing I've heard talking to some teams is they feel like he has the plus-plus characteristics that might make him into a star player one day.

Yeah, absolutely.

Before we let you go, one thing that I'm really curious about, too, is what's going to be happening in the 20s this year.

The Canucks have the 24th overall pick, too, and we've seen so many different lists about where guys are ranked, and we've seen guys be anywhere from 30th on some lists and all the way up to 10 on some other lists.

I know you've been high on Mathis Preston, for instance.

When you look at this year's draft, given that you're higher on certain players than some other people are,

what are the chances that at number 24, the Canucks might be looking at a player that some would have in the top 10 to 15 of this year's draft?

No, I hear you on that.

Tony, listen, man, we always appreciate you giving us some time.

We still have a few weeks to go before the draft, so I'm sure we'll chat before that as well.

But thanks for this and keep up the great work.

Thanks a lot, guys.

Talk to you later.

That is Tony Ferrari, covers the National Hockey League for the Hockey News and, of course, the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.

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And, you know, that last point about

I can almost guarantee you to what Tony said that the Canucks are going to pick somebody at 24 and they're going to say we had this player way higher.

But that generally happens every draft, right?

Like even when the Canucks drafted Brock Besser that year, I think they had him in the top 10 of their draft that year.

Like he was in top 10 of their list and ended up picking him